Mitch Friesen Email & Phone Number

Orange County, California Area

Temecula, California

• When the Office Manager unexpectedly quit, I took over her duties right before the charity’s biggest event ever, it’s first audit, and in the middle of grading a record number of scholarship applications.
• Researched and implemented NetSuite CRM and train staff on its use
• Performed bookkeeping for nearly 2 years, then searched for and hired a firm to provide accounting support.
• Administer the online application platform, even finding and correcting a crucial grading error that would have impacted up to 60% of the grade of all 1,500+ annual applicants
• Led three audits
• Researched and implemented Slack, ClickUp, and DialPad when the team transitioned to become remote.

Temecula, CA

• We provide hope and inspiration to cancer survivors seeking to get back on their feet and thriving through the provision of college scholarships and mentoring services. I help by:
• Maximize scholar engagement, breaking records for event attendance/volunteering (133% increase over prior three years) and fundraising (284% increase over prior three years)
• Coordinate fundraising events for up to 6,000 people, each raising up to $800,000
• Created a professional mentoring platform, already with six 1:1 partnerships and four mentoring seminars that featured A-list celebrities and multi-billion-dollar corporation executives
• Launched a social media strategy that increased total following 44%
• Supervise the scholarship committee, expanding it to 20 members to handle record numbers (over 1,600 applications in 2018) and strategically adding past scholars as a means of reconnecting them to the charity.

• Support the Assistant Superintendent of Administration with strategic planning and implementation.
• Conduct extensive research to better integrate business and ministry.
• Operate QuickBooks and budgeting for an FMC church and school.
• Data collection, financial analysis, and synthesis for executive reports and church leadership training.

Azusa, CA

• Facilitate leadership development for 25 students via weekly topical group meetings.
• Develop and enact overall house vision with APU faculty resource partner.
• Oversee 4-member team through planning and implementation of annual theme and weekly events.
• All responsibilities of a Residential Advisor (see below).

Azusa, CA

• Provide a living and learning experience for the student who desires to grow in a unique manner
• Serve on a staff to develop and implement a theme for inter/personal development of students
• Enhance university life through event planning for 30-150 people
• Directly uphold university standards for 40 people through conflict management and prevention.